Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16772, Samuel Druin, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Druin, Samuel
8 16772
CONTENTS
Carded

Admiral
-29 925-
See letter May 18. 1835 to Th. M. Randolph 4th Potomac at Tuckahoe, N. J.
James Quinn of Henrico in the State of Va who was a pvt in the Comp commanded by Captain Sevier of the — commanded by — in the 19th Regt Va M a time for 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 30 — Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th day of May 35 to and for Thos M a Randolph Tuckahoe Va
Arrears to the 4th of Feb 35 120 — Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 st Sept 15 — $135.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nath. Rice, — Clerk. Book E Vol. 6/2 Page 9

State of Virginia } County of Henrico } 1835.
On this 24 th day of March 1835 Personally appeared before me Wm H Johnson a Justice of the Peace for the County of Henrico Samuel Drinn a resident of the County of Henrico and State of Virginia aged 71 years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following decla- ration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. that he was draf- -ted in the Militia of Virginia as a private in the Com- -pany of Capt Miles Selden on the 1 st Sept 1780 & served in the 19 th Regt. V. M. under the following named officers Capt Miles Selden, Lt William Giles & Ensign Kersee a tour of three months; that with his Company he marched from Richmond to Williamsburg & from thence to Yorktown & remained there on duty until discharged on the termina- tion of his tour that in the winter of 1780 he was a second time drafted as a private in the Company of Capt Bowles 19 th Regt V. M. was with his Company at Richmond when General Arnold having invaded the State arrived with the British Army at that place which happened early in Janu- -ary 1781. that he was in readiness for action, but General Baron Steuben who commanded the American forces not deeming it prudent, no battle took place, on the retreat of the enemy from Richmond, he with his Company marched with the American Troops to Malvern Hills in the lower end of Henrico on the road to Westover, there the Ameri- can Army lay in the neighbourhood of the British & he there

offered them battle which the enemy declined but continued the retreat to their shipping from Malvern Hills, he with his Company marched to Charles City Court House to reinforce a party of Militia who had had the day before a skirmish with a detachment of the British. Before the arrival of the Rein- forcement the enemy retreated to their Head Quarters, the March was in consequence continued to Williamsburg & from thence to York Town, under the expectation that General Arnold having gone down James River would have been there, he however did not, that he remained at York under the command of General Nelson until the termination of the tour of three months when he was discharged, that he was drafted a third time, but discharged by a Court of Enquiry in conse- quence of having recently served two tours in succession this was before the siege of York, which discharge was the cause of his not being at the siege - after the Capture of Lord Cornwallis - in the Autumn (he thinks late in November,) he was drafted a fourth time for a tour of three months & served the tour in Richmond on Guard duty this closed his service having served in all nine months - that he possessed all his written discharges, which were deposited except the last in the house of his father James Dossin in the County of Henrico the house being on the main stage road was plundered by the Army under Lord Cornwallis at his retreat from York town County & the papers were then supposed to be lost, as they have never been since seen. The last discharge he has no recollection how it was lost - that he was born in the year 1764 the record of his age was in the Parish Church books

of St. James of Northam in the County of Goochland, he is ignorant what has become of the books or of the record - he was born in the County of Goochland but removed when an infant to the County of Henrico & has resided there both before & since the Revolution, he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency or State.
Joseph Davis
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid - before me
Wm H Johnson
On the 24 th day of March 1835, Thomas M. Randolph a resident of the County of Goochland personally appeared before me Wm H Johnson a Justice of the Peace for the County of Henrico and being sworn according to Law, testified that at the May Term of Henrico Court (1834) in as the friend of Samuel Davis accompanied him the said Davis to Court that in his presence the court examined said Davis touching his Revolutionary services, his age considered &c and being satisfied of the correctness of his claim to a Pension under the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832, directed the Clerk to authenticate the same, That the said papers setting forth the claim of said Davis duly authenticated according to Law were by the said Randolph enclosed & mailed at Poole's Tavern Post Office for a few days before the adjournment of Congress and sent to the Honble John Tyler of the Senate and that after the lapse of several months not having heard from Mr Tyler on the subject said Randolph wrote him and received for answer a letter dated Feb 6 th 1835 stating that the letter covering the claim of said Davis had never come to hand, and that the papers were thus lost & accounts for it in this way, the letter did

not reach Washington until after the adjournment of Congress was sent to his residence in the county of Gloucester and there lost as he was not at home having been during the recess of Congress principally in Philadelphia & other places said. Randolph further testifies that he has known the said Duvall from his boyhood & has always heard him spoken of as a soldier of the Revolution and such is the universal belief in the neighbourhood in which he resides and he further believes him to be as old as he says
Thomas M. Randolph
Sworn to & subscribed before me the day & year above
Wm H Johnson
I, Meriwether Jones a Clergyman residing in the county of Henrico do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Samuel Duvall who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that I believe him to be seventy one years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that I concur in that opinion
Meriwether Jones
Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
Wm H Johnson
I Wm H Johnson a Justice of the Peace for the county of Henrico in the State of Virginia do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that
The above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and sworn as he states, and I further certify that

Meriwether L Jones who has signed the — preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Henrico and that Thomas R Randolph who has also signed a preceding certificate is a resident in the county of Goochland near the Henrico line and is a cred- -ible person and that their statement is entitled to credit I also certify that the above named applicant (Sam d Druin) is too infirm to attend at our County Ct House which is distant about 12 miles from his residence. Given under my hand and seal this 24 th day March 1835.
Wm H Johnson (S)
Henrico County to wit
This day John Vinsley of this County a soldier of the Revolu- -tion & a pensioner of the United States personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid and made oath that he was well acquainted with Samuel Druin (whose claim for a Pension is above set forth,) during the time of the Revolution & that said Druin was actually in service to his personal knowledge. Given under my hand & seal the 24 th day of March 1835. Wm H Johnson (S)
Virginia. Henrico County to wit:
I Justin A. Ellett clerk of the Court of the County aforesaid in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that William H. Johnson, whose name is subscribed in five different places on the preceding writings and proceedings, was at the time of subscribing the same and is now an acting Justice of the peace in and for the aforesaid County of Henrico

Henrico, duly commissioned and qualified according to law, and that the said Wm H. Johnson personally appears before me in my office and acknowledges the signatures aforesaid to be genuine. In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and annex the seal of the said Court this 2 d day of April 1835, and in the 59 th year of the Commonwealth.
Leffey N. Ellett C.H.C.

16.772 INVALID.
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File No. 16.772 Samuel D. Smith Pr. Rec 722
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

May 18
Phila Pa May 13/1833
Will
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commission of Pensions
Washington

Sir
Wetmore May 16 th 1895
Three weeks since I put in the P.O. Powell, Green Greenland Co. Va., a packet addressed to you, covering the papers of Saml. Brinn for a pension for services during the war of the Revolution, & not having since heard from you on the subject. I am apprehensive the papers have not been received. This fear is induced, from the fact of a similar accident having happened twelve months ago, & knowing the punctilious & despatch, for which the Pension Bureau is distinguished, I cannot account in any other way for the delay. Should my apprehensions be just, may I ask the favour of you, to enclose me the original papers sent on in my first communication (pursuant to directions) that I may reinstate the claim of this worthy old soldier, who depends on my friendship in aiding him to obtain from his country the just reward of his toils & his sufferings. the honourable tribute of a nation's gratitude.
I am Sir
Very respctg. Yo obs. Servt.
T. M. Randolph

Sir
Richmond April 24 th 1835
I most sincerely regret the trouble the enclosed claim has given, especially as it could have been obviated by my explaining the reasons that induced me to send on the copy of an order of Henrico Court the following, I trust, will remove the difficulty. In my testimony before the Magistrate to which I beg leave to refer you, it is there stated, that in June 1834 Samuel Druin carried his claim for a pension before the Court for Henrico County, & after a proper examination the clerk was directed to authenticate it, which was done, & the order admitted to record. The papers legally authenticated, with the certificate of Eli Bale a clergyman attached thereto, were sent to my personal friend John Tyler Esq. of the Senate, but unfortunately never came to hand. This Spring (1835) a new declaration was made, & as the claimant had become too infirm to attend the Court of his County, the required oaths were administered by a Justice of the Peace, thinking that it might strengthen the claim, to shew that he had been examined by the Court, & also to confirm my statement. I obtained from the Clerk a copy of the order made in June 1834. Eli Bale the clergyman who signed the papers of 1834, having removed from the neighbourhood, his name does not now appear. The certificate of M. L. Jones, also a clergyman, will however be found on those now offered. May I ask the favor of you in your examination, to consider the copy of the order of Court, as irrelevant to the present claim, but referring, as will be seen by its date, to the papers made out a lost last summer, a consider it in that light. I would not now enclose it, as the other papers are authentic without it, but I wish for my satisfaction, that its date may be noted, & that it may be taken merely as corroboration of my statement before the Magistrate. This being the only difficulty suggested in your letter, I trust the explanation given will remove it & you will consider the error arose from a desire on my part to do perhaps more than was required.
Very respectfully Yr ob t serv t .
Thomas M. Randolph
To,
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comm r . of Pensions Washington

To
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commisioner of Pensions
Washington

va
Samuel Brainerd
52.988
all out of pocket
9 mo. $30

Virginia
At a Quarterly Court held for Henrico County at the Courthouse on Monday the 2 o day of June 1834 -
A declaration of Samuel Druin was this day subscribed and sworn to in open Court by the said Druin and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as the States, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Eli Ball who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Henrico and that M. A. Jones who also signed the same is a resident in the County of Henrico, and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit -
Virginia, Henrico County to wit:
I Softin A. Ellett clerk of the court of the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that the above is a true transcript, taken from the records of the court of the county aforesaid. In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and annex the seal of the said court this second day of April 1835, and in the 59 th year of the commonwealth.
Softin A. Ellett C.H.B.